See merit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.",
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"ref": "a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “An Ode Humbly Inscrib’d to the Queen”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 275:",
"text": "Thoſe laurel groves (the merits of thy youth), / Which thou from Mahomet didſt greatly gain, / While, bold aſſertor of reſiſtleſs truth, / Thy ſword did godlike liberty maintain, / Muſt from thy brow their falling honours ſhed, / And their tranſplanted wreaths muſt deck a worthier head.",
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"text": "His reward for his merit was a check for $50.",
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"ref": "1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, page 42:",
"text": "Such was Roſcommon—not more learn’d than good; / With Manners gen’rous as his Noble Blood; / To him the Wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And ev’ry Author’s Merit but his own.",
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"ref": "1877, Richard Fuller, “Sermon Thirteenth. The Gospel Stifled by Covetousness.”, in Sermons by Richard Fuller, […] (Second Series), Baltimore, Md.: Published by John F[rederick] Weishampel, Jr.; Philadelphia, Pa.: American Baptist Publication Society; New York, N.Y.: Sheldon and Company, →OCLC, page 244:",
"text": "In all our noble Anglo-Saxon language, there is scarcely a nobler word than worth; yet this term has now almost exclusively a pecuniary meaning. So that if you ask what a man is worth, nobody ever thinks of telling you what he is, but what he has. The answer will never refer to his merits, his virtues, but always to his possessions. He is worth—so much money.",
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"word": "ansio"
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{
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "hyvä työ"
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"code": "hi",
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"text": "Take the principle that requires distribution of help in accord with need. It would certainly support allocating some help to its only potential recipient, provided she is in need. And on the plausible assumption that the more meriting of some good one is the more good one merits, the principle would support allocating more of the help to her the greater her needs.",
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"text": "Thus charg’d thy sire, which thou forgett’st: yet now those thoughts appease / That torture thy great spirit with wrath; which if thou wilt give surcease, / The king will merit it with gifts ; and if thou wilt give ear / I’ll tell you how much he offers thee:—yet thou sitt’st angry here.",
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"text": "Thoſe laurel groves (the merits of thy youth), / Which thou from Mahomet didſt greatly gain, / While, bold aſſertor of reſiſtleſs truth, / Thy ſword did godlike liberty maintain, / Muſt from thy brow their falling honours ſhed, / And their tranſplanted wreaths muſt deck a worthier head.",
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"ref": "1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, page 42:",
"text": "Such was Roſcommon—not more learn’d than good; / With Manners gen’rous as his Noble Blood; / To him the Wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And ev’ry Author’s Merit but his own.",
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"ref": "1877, Richard Fuller, “Sermon Thirteenth. The Gospel Stifled by Covetousness.”, in Sermons by Richard Fuller, […] (Second Series), Baltimore, Md.: Published by John F[rederick] Weishampel, Jr.; Philadelphia, Pa.: American Baptist Publication Society; New York, N.Y.: Sheldon and Company, →OCLC, page 244:",
"text": "In all our noble Anglo-Saxon language, there is scarcely a nobler word than worth; yet this term has now almost exclusively a pecuniary meaning. So that if you ask what a man is worth, nobody ever thinks of telling you what he is, but what he has. The answer will never refer to his merits, his virtues, but always to his possessions. He is worth—so much money.",
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"text": "It is no small tax upon the people to support their [Buddhist] priests, but they do it with a willing heart. When I was once at the old capital, I saw a woman, from her own stock, feed more than fifty priests, who came to her in his turn, and received his portion. [...] If I had asked her why she thus spent so much of her living, her answer would have been, 'To make merit.'",
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"ref": "2015, Monica Lindberg Falk, “Communication across Boundaries”, in Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand: Socio-cultural Responses (The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 90:",
"text": "At funerals, acts of sharing religious merit are central and relatives of the deceased make merit in order to ensure that the departed family member will have a favourable rebirth.",
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"text": "The Plaintiff muſt ſhew Cauſe either on the Merits, or upon filing Exceptions; if upon the Merits, the Court may put what Terms they pleaſe on him; as bringing in the Money, or paying it to the Parties, ſubject to the Order of the Court, [...]",
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"ref": "2014, Karel Wellens, “Failed Post-adjudicative Negotiations and Returning to the Court”, in Negotiations in the Case Law of the International Court of Justice: A Functional Analysis, Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part III (Negotiations during the Post-adjudicative Phase), page 311:",
"text": "[I]n most cases once the Court has performed its judicial function – as it had been determined by the parties through their Application or Special Agreement and their submissions – and has rendered its judgment on the merits of the case, a new phrase of functional interaction commences.",
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"text": "Be it known, that we the greateſt are mis-thoght / For things that others do : and when we fall, / We anſwer others merits, in our name / Are therefore to be pittied.",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "claim to commendation or a reward",
"word": "功勞"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gōng láo",
"sense": "claim to commendation or a reward",
"word": "功劳"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "claim to commendation or a reward",
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{
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"masculine"
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "claim to commendation or a reward",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "क़द्र"
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "claim to commendation or a reward",
"word": "価値"
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"code": "ko",
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"word": "장점"
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"code": "ml",
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"sense": "claim to commendation or a reward",
"word": "യോഗ്യത"
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{
"code": "ml",
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"word": "അർഹത"
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"code": "pt",
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{
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{
"code": "es",
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"ref": "1806, “Art. I.—Voyages en Italie, &c. Travels in Italy and Sicily, Made in 1801 and 1802. By M. Creuzé de Lesser, Member of the Legislative Body. 8vo. Paris. 1806. Imported by De Conchy. [book review]”, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature (Series the Third), volume IX (Appendix), number V, London: Printed for J. Mawman, […]; and sold by J. Deighton, […]; Hanwell and Parker, and J. Cooke, […], →OCLC, page 465:",
"text": "Oh! France! charming country! where I had the good fortune to be born! one never quits thee with impunity. Celebrated for the rich beauty of thy soil, for the sociability of thy inhabitants, for all the comforts of civilized life, thou meritest thy reputation, and nothing is so rare.",
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"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 78:",
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"text": "Take the principle that requires distribution of help in accord with need. It would certainly support allocating some help to its only potential recipient, provided she is in need. And on the plausible assumption that the more meriting of some good one is the more good one merits, the principle would support allocating more of the help to her the greater her needs.",
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"text": "There is none but thee, O ſon of the living God! O faithful friend of our ſouls! that willingly beareſt the croſs for others. All that thou meriteſt by thy croſs, thou meriteſt for us; and thou deſireſt no our recompence for it than our profit.",
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"text": "Thus charg’d thy sire, which thou forgett’st: yet now those thoughts appease / That torture thy great spirit with wrath; which if thou wilt give surcease, / The king will merit it with gifts ; and if thou wilt give ear / I’ll tell you how much he offers thee:—yet thou sitt’st angry here.",
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɛɹɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɛɹət/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-merit.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/En-us-merit.ogg/En-us-merit.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/En-us-merit.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛɹɪt"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "istaḥaʔʔ",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "استحق"
},
{
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "istaahaal",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
],
"word": "اِسْتاهَل"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "merèixer"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "meriti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "mériter"
},
{
"code": "frm",
"lang": "Middle French",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "meriter"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "meriter"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "mertâ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "meritare"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "ēmereō"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zásluži",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "за́служи"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "aṟhikkuka",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "അർഹിക്കുക"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "méthiter"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaslúživatʹ",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заслу́живать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaslužítʹ",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "заслужи́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "arhati",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "अर्हति"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "zaslužiti"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "zavrijediti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "meritar"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "to deserve, earn — see also deserve, earn",
"word": "meritar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zaslužavam",
"sense": "to be deserving or worthy",
"word": "заслужавам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to be deserving or worthy",
"word": "merèixer"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to be deserving or worthy",
"word": "meritare"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zásluži",
"sense": "to be deserving or worthy",
"word": "за́служи"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "aṟhikkuka",
"sense": "to be deserving or worthy",
"word": "അർഹിക്കുക"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "arhati",
"sense": "to be deserving or worthy",
"word": "अर्हति"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "to be deserving or worthy",
"word": "meritar"
}
],
"word": "merit"
}
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